Calinda Chan Yuen-wai

Biography

Calinda Chan Yuen-wai is a Chinese actress from Hong Kong, whose name is sometimes misspelled as Chan Yuen-wei. Her ancestral home is in Xinhui, Guangdong. She participated in the 2007 Miss Hong Kong Pageant and was among the 24 qualifiers. She worked as a contracted actress with Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) in Hong Kong and made her debut on the programme "Foodie 2 Shoes" in the role of "Fruit Salad" as part of the Taste Angels. She later joined Wang Wai-ke's Hong Kong Television Network (HKTV) as an actress. Calinda Chan studied at the Sacred Heart Canossian School in primary school, then at True Light Girls' College in Hong Kong. She subsequently went to the United Kingdom to study at Headington School, completing her high school education before enrolling at the London School of Economics and Political Science. On 8 October 2015, she married the former TVB producer Kwok Kwok-wai, who has since passed away, and after marriage gradually moved behind the scenes. In October 2017, she announced she was five months pregnant, and her daughter Abby was born in February of the following year. Her husband Kwok Kwok-wai died in October 2020 from pancreatic cancer at the age of 58. Her younger sister Mandy Chan Yuen-ting married Tang Wai-hin, the son of Tang Ka-ho.